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Seven people were arrested at a protest march in Indianapolis as demonstrators threw rocks at officers and chanted "Kill the police." The crowd also chanted "Love trumps hate."
Nothing quite says "Love trumps hate" like threatening to kill police, eh?
Three of those arrested were not from Indianapolis, say authorities.Indianapolis Star:

The protest that started at the Statehouse was mostly peaceful until later in the evening when police used what appeared to be a pepper gun on some protesters walking in the street.After rallying at the Statehouse and walking towards the Soldiers and Sailors Monument, the group splintered in two. On Facebook, the rally was set to end at 8 p.m., but a sizable portion of people continued to march, and police began asking protesters to get on the sidewalks around that time.
One group stopped at the corner of Washington and Illinois streets. The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said at that point, protesters started chanting threats, such as, "Kill the police."
Police decided to arrest two of the instigators. That's when police said some protesters started throwing rocks at officers. IMPD Chief Troy Riggs said they received reports of protesters who had brought backpacks full of rocks. Around that time, police fired their non-lethal weapon.
People responded in anger with chants of, "Black lives matter" and "Hands up, don't shoot." Half an hour later the crowd started to disperse.
Later five more arrests were made. Police also said there was no property damage.
About 500 people initially gathered peacefully at the Statehouse at 5 p.m., alternating between chanting and giving impassioned speeches, in protest of the election of Donald Trump.
After a couple of hours, the protesters marched through Downtown and around the Soldiers and Sailors Monument. Police officers blocked traffic in response throughout the Downtown area.
"We wanted to make sure their first amendment rights were protected, even to the point where we shut down traffic,"Riggs said.
Though the march turned violent temporarily, most of the night was peaceful.

If they arrested three outsiders, you know there had to be more. And I believe that if you look at the protests across the country, you will see a lot of out-of-town protesters.

The question is, are they being sent in to foment violence? I have no doubt the vast majority of protesters are peaceful, if not a little muddle-headed. But a mob can turn violent in a flash if professional agitators move them in that direction.
Any time Black Lives Matter is involved in a protest, that scenario must be considered.

They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease."You think a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a sheet of glass."John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir of Enfield (1875-1940): Author and Diplomat

While many reports of hate crimes against minorities and immigrants have proven to be hoaxes, one Slovenian immigrant was targeted in an anti-Trump protest in Washington, D.C., Saturday night.
A man protesting the election of President-elect Donald Trump held up a sign saying "Rape Melania," a reference to Trump's wife, a legal immigrant from Slovenia.

The man had gathered with other anti-Trump protesters in front of the new Trump hotel in Washington, D.C., which opened on Pennsylvania Avenue at the site of the Old Post Office building. The protester holding the sign reportedly fled when confronted by the lone Trump supporter in the crowd.
This anonymous protester's response to the election signals a clear contrast with that of the Slovenian prime minister, Dr. Miro Cerar. "Of course I am very happy that Slovenia was part of this election with our Melania Trump becoming the First Lady of the United States," Cerar wrote in a statement Wednesday. "I am sure that the president-elect already knows a lot about Slovenia."

They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease."You think a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a sheet of glass."John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir of Enfield (1875-1940): Author and Diplomat

Posted on November 13, 2016 by sundance
The riots and protests coordinated by the White House and professional left-wing organizations continue through day #5.
However, despite the MSM trying to attach responsibility to Trump, their intended purpose -to protect the Obama/Clinton legacy- is not yielding the desired results. More and more people are looking toward the White House silence and beginning to understand the manipulative ideological intents of the professional antagonism.
President Obama is about to depart for Europe (Greece) and Peru (APEC summit) on his last foreign travel assignment. Allowing President-Elect Trump to own the domestic media narrative under these circumstances is entirely too politically dangerous:
President-Elect Trump has effectively leveraged silence, and as a consequence forced President Obama to own the riots and protests. Anticipate Obama’s attempt to distance himself from the violence of his own creation tomorrow afternoon.About these ads

They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease."You think a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a sheet of glass."John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir of Enfield (1875-1940): Author and Diplomat

Ever since Donald Trump's election victory Tuesday night, the media have been abuzz with stories about massive, sometimes violent, anti-Trump protests breaking out in cities all across the country. We've been told that ordinary Americans everywhere are so frightened and angered by the prospect of a Trump presidency—as opposed to a Hillary Clinton presidency—that they're taking to the streets to express their grave concerns for the future of the country.

In Chicago, for instance, thousands of people held an “emergency protest” outside a Trump hotel, chanting: “No Trump, No KKK, No Fascist USA!”

In New York, some 5,000 people (including the political oracle Lady Gaga) demonstrated outside Trump Tower. “Their concerns,” said CNN, “ranged from policies, such as Trump's proposed plan to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border, to the polarizing tenor of his campaign that they say stoked xenophobic fears.”

In Oakland, some of the 7,000+ demonstrators damaged police cars, vandalized businesses, hurled Molotov cocktails and rocks at law-enforcement officers, and started at least 40 separate fires.

And in Los Angeles, more than 1,000 people filled the streets, burned Trump in effigy, and sang John Lennon's Give Peace a Chance. “Several protesters said they feared that family or friends might be deported once Trump takes office,” said CNN.

From reading the various mainstream media accounts of these events, one comes away with the distinct impression that they are grassroots actions that began organically among ordinary, concerned, well-meaning citizens. But alas, if one were to think that, one would be wrong.

Contrary to media misrepresentations, many of the supposedly spontaneous, organic, anti-Trump protests we have witnessed in cities from coast to coast were in fact carefully planned and orchestrated, in advance, by a pro-Communist organization called the ANSWER Coalition, which draws its name from the acronym for “Act Now to Stop War and End Racism.” ANSWER was established in 2001 by Ramsey Clark’s International Action Center, a group staffed in large part by members of the Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party. In 2002, the libertarian author Stephen Suleyman Schwartz described ANSWER as an “ultra-Stalinist network” whose members served as “active propaganda agents for Serbia, Iraq, and North Korea, as well as Cuba, countries they repeatedly visit and acclaim.”

Since its inception, ANSWER has consistently depicted the United States as a racist, sexist, imperialistic, militaristic nation guilty of unspeakable crimes against humanity—in other words, a wellspring of pure evil. When ANSWER became a leading organizer of the massive post-9/11 demonstrations against the Patriot Act and the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, it formed alliances with other likeminded entities such as Not In Our Name (a project of the Revolutionary Communist Party) and United For Peace and Justice (a pro-Castro group devoted to smearing America as a cesspool of bigotry and oppression).

Another key organizer of the current anti-Trump protests is a group called Socialist Alternative, which describes “the global capitalist system” as “the root cause of … poverty, discrimination, war, and environmental destruction.” Explaining that “the dictatorships that existed in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were [unfortunate] perversions of what socialism is really about,” this organization calls for a happy-faced “democratic socialism where ordinary people will have control over our daily lives.”

And, lo and behold, many components of Socialist Alternative's agenda mesh seamlessly with Hillary Clinton's political priorities. For instance, Socialist Alternative seeks to: (a) “raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, as a step toward a living wage for all”; (b) provide “free [taxpayer-funded] … public education for all from pre-school through college”; (c) create “a publicly funded single-payer [healthcare] system as a step towards fully socialized medicine”; (d) impose absolutely “no budget cuts [on] education and social services”; and (e) legislate “a major increase in taxes on the rich and big business.”

In short, the anti-Trump protests that are currently making headlines are 100% contrived, fake, phony exhibitions of street theater, orchestrated entirely by radicals and revolutionaries whose chief objective is to push America ever farther to the political left. Moreover, they seek to utterly demoralize conservatives into believing that public opposition to their own (conservative) political and social values is growing more powerful, more passionate, and more widespread with each passing day.

The bottom line is this: The leaders and organizers of the anti-Trump protests that are currently making so much noise in cities across America, are faithfully following the blueprint of Hillary Clinton's famous mentor, Saul Alinsky, who urged radical activists to periodically stage loud, defiant, massive protest rallies expressing rage and discontent. Such demonstrations are designed to give onlookers the impression that a mass movement is preparing to shift into high gear, and that its present size is but a fraction of what it eventually will become. A “mass impression,” said Alinsky, can be lasting and intimidating: “Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.... The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.”

And that is precisely what we are witnessing at the moment.

They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease."You think a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a sheet of glass."John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir of Enfield (1875-1940): Author and Diplomat

Opponents to Donald Trump’s presidency are planning large-scale demonstrations in the nation’s capital in January when the Republican president-elect is sworn in on Inauguration Day, with police apparently expecting tens-of-thousands of protesters.

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Trump’s surprise win Tuesday over Democratic rival Hillary Clinton has already sparked smaller protests across the county. However, demonstrations being planned for Inauguration Day weekend, which includes the Jan. 20 swearing-in on Capitol Hill, have the potential to be much larger. One protest is being organized by the group ANSWER, for Act Now to Stop War & End Racism.The group’s Facebook page announcing its “Protest at the Inauguration: Stand Against Trump, War, Racism and Inequality" event on Saturday showed that nearly 7,000 people have already committed to attending and 24,000 more have expressing interest in the event.A Metropolitan Police Department officer said Friday that officers have already been briefed about the proposed demonstration and to prepare for at least 30,000 protesters.An MPD spokesman on Saturday declined to discuss the matter, saying the agency doesn’t talk about “deploying resources.”Predictions MapSee the Fox News 2016 battleground prediction map and make your own election projections. See Predictions Map →

He also suggested that the event was too far off to provide specifics but added the agency will “plan accordingly.”And a pro-Clinton group named “RoaRR 4 Hillary” is planning a “Million Women March” on Jan. 21. ANSWER, started roughly 15 years ago, after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, and has the potential to attract hundreds of thousands of protesters.In January 2013, the group led an antiwar protest that it says brought 200,000 people to Washington, D.C. And two months later, ANSWER helped organize a similar worldwide event that is considered the biggest anti-war protest in history.Trump was criticized during his historic outsider campaign for comments about women and illegal Mexican immigrants and for his proposal after recent terror attacks connected to radical Islamists to temporarily ban Muslims trying to enter the United States.Already this week, a man was shot in Portland, Oregon, when he got into a confrontation with a protester.Portland police said the person who was shot was taken to a hospital for treatment of injuries that were not life-threatening. Police said they were looking for the shooter, who apparently fled in his vehicle after the attack early Saturday morning.The shooting followed rowdy Friday night protests, when police used tear gas in response to "burning projectiles" thrown at officers, police said on Twitter. Hundreds of people marched through the city, disrupting traffic and spray-painting graffiti.Authorities reported instances of vandalism and assault during a rally that organizers had billed as peaceful earlier in the day.In other parts of the country, spirited demonstrations on college campuses and peaceful marches along downtown streets have taken place since Wednesday. In Washington, protesters burn at least one U.S. flag, which resulted in confrontation with a military veteran.And people continue to protest at Trump’s new luxury hotel in Washington, Trump International, just blocks from the White House.A mainly peaceful protest by about 3,000 people ended in Los Angeles early Saturday with about 200 arrests for failure to disperse after police broke up the lingering demonstration.Hundreds joined a Friday afternoon "love rally" in Washington Square Park in Manhattan.Evening marches disrupted traffic in Miami and Atlanta.Trump supporter Nicolas Quirico was traveling from South Beach to Miami. His car was among hundreds stopped when protesters blocked Interstate 395."Trump will be our president. There is no way around that, and the sooner people grasp that, the better off we will be," he said. "There is a difference between a peaceful protest and standing in a major highway backing up traffic for 5 miles. This is wrong."More than a thousand protesters took to the streets across California after night fell including downtown Los Angeles, where over 200 were arrested a night earlier. In Bakersfield, where Trump is far more popular than in most of the state, some held signs reading "Anti-Trump, Pro-USA."Small protests also were held in Detroit; Minneapolis; Kansas City, Missouri; Olympia, Washington and Iowa City.More than 200 people, carrying signs gathered on the steps of the Washington state Capitol. The group chanted "not my president" and "no Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA."In Tennessee, Vanderbilt University students sang civil rights songs and marched through campus across a Nashville street, temporarily blocking traffic. A protest also occurred in Minneapolis.In Chicago, multiple groups planned protests through Saturday.Ashley Lynne Nagel, 27, said she joined a Thursday night demonstration in Denver."I have a leader I fear for the first time in my life," said Nagel, a Bernie Sanders supporter who voted for Hillary Clinton."It's not that we're sore losers," she said. "It's that we are genuinely upset, angry, terrified that a platform based off of racism, xenophobia and homophobia has become so powerful and now has complete control of our representation."Demonstrations also were planned Saturday in Las Vegas, Los Angeles and other areas.Previous demonstrations drew thousands of people in New York and other large urban centers. The largely peaceful demonstrations were overshadowed by sporadic episodes of vandalism, violence and street-blocking.The Associated Press contributed to this

They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease."You think a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a sheet of glass."John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir of Enfield (1875-1940): Author and Diplomat

They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease."You think a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a sheet of glass."John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir of Enfield (1875-1940): Author and Diplomat

George Soros and other left wing advocates are seeking to foment a “Purple Revolution” against those who dared to reject their preferred presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and vote instead for President-elect Donald Trump. After all, Soros alone is reported to have “committed $25 million dollars to the 2016 campaign of Hillary Clinton,” and refuses to accept that his investment was wasted. What’s a few hundred million more to pay for imposing his preferred result through civil unrest rather than through the ballot box? As Zero Hedge explains, “The Purple Revolution will…seek to make the Trump administration a short one through Soros-style street protests and political disruption.”Left wing groups, some supported by Soros, are even paying protesters to take part in disruptive demonstrations. Of course, Soros is doing his best to keep his fingerprints off the protests, as a hedge in the event that violence continues to spread. “George Soros is not funding these (anti Trump) protests,” Soros spokesperson Michael Vachon said in an interview. “This is a fiction promoted by the alt-right.” The problem for the Soros shadow government network is that it has a long established blueprint abroad for the kind of disruptive organized actions it appears to be supporting in the United States. Soros has plenty of history in disrupting economies (recall Soros’ “break the Bank of England”) and undermining governments in countries whose citizens’ democratically elected choices he opposes (Poland, for example). Soros has supported mass refugee migration to Europe, which he would like to see occur in the United States as well. As Breitbart reported last November, “A group masquerading as conservative but backed by left-wing foundations including billionaire George Soros’s Foundation to Promote Open Society (FPOS) has launched an online advertising campaign in defense of bringing Syrian refugees to the United States.” This reportedly followed criticism by Donald Trump and others of plans to expand the admission of Syrian refugees into the United States. Aside from his own Open Society Foundation, Soros has funded numerous left wing organizations in the United States, ranging from Media Matters to Moveon.org. They collaborate with each other and with other left wing groups such as Black Lives Matter. Indeed, Soros donated $100,000 in 2011 to the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, which is run by the co-creator of Black Lives Matter.

Even well before the presidential election, Soros was busy behind the scenes fomenting combustible street protests that burst out of control. For example, the Washington Times has reported that “Mr. Soros gave at least $33 million in one year to support already-established groups that emboldened the grass-roots, on-the-ground activists in Ferguson, according to the most recent tax filings of his nonprofit Open Society Foundations.” Soros is anti-police. He tweeted a reference to an article published by his Open Society Foundations, entitled “Let’s Reduce, Not Reform, Policing in America.” The author described policing as “the armed enforcement of the interests of the most powerful over those who would challenge that power.” Her proposed solution was not better police training or accountability, but simply to “shrink the size and scope of police forces, reduce the number of gadgets at cops’ disposal, and constrain their ability to ensnare us.” Without adequate police to prevent or constrain riots, protesters will have free rein to intimidate those whom they see as their political enemies. Thus it is no surprise that disruptions at Trump rallies during the presidential campaign have been attributed at least in part to supporters of Hillary Clinton, “paid for mostly by George Soros and MoveOn.org and pushed by David Brock at Media Matters for America.”Now that Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States, the “Purple Revolution” is the next step for Soros-funded groups and other far left organizations to pursue. Soros’s Moveon.org is one of the leading organizers of the anti-Trump protests streaming through cities across the country. “This is a disaster. We fought our hearts out to avert this reality. But now it’s here,” MoveOn.org staff wrote to members the day after the election. Such “a disaster” must be resisted, even before Donald Trump takes office and makes his first presidential decision. In a press release issued shortly after the election, Moveon.org boasted that within two hours of “the call-to-action, MoveOn members had created more than 200 gatherings nationwide.” Buses of protesters arrived in cities such as Austin, Texas, which obviously took significant planning and funding to accomplish. George Soros does not believe in the democratic process. He believes in imposing his definition of an “open” society, which he sees as ultimately a borderless world run by so-called enlightened progressives. He has contempt for ordinary people engaging in the process of self-government, particularly whenever the result is not to his liking. Four years ago, Soros predicted that riots would break out in the streets. Now that the Left's preferred candidate did not win the 2016 presidential election, Soros and his other left wing allies may be on their way to make his prophecy come true.

They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease."You think a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a sheet of glass."John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir of Enfield (1875-1940): Author and Diplomat

Posted on November 14, 2016 by sundance
During the CBS 60 Minutes interview recorded on Friday afternoon, CBS correspondent Lesly Stahl badgered President-Elect Donald Trump about the false MSM narrative of Trump supporters intimidating people:Lesley Stahl: Do you want to say anything to those people?Donald Trump:I would say don’t do it, that’s terrible, ‘cause I’m gonna bring this country together.Lesley Stahl:They’re harassing Latinos, Muslims–Donald Trump: I am so saddened to hear that. And I say, “Stop it.” If it– if it helps. I will say this, and I will say right to the cameras: Stop it.
Setting aside the ridiculous line of questioning, the issue surfaced: if the media was so concerned about Trump supporter violence, then why didn’t CBS release this interview segment on Friday evening instead of the ObamaCare segment they released?
Within the answer to that question you find out how the media constructs their manipulative narratives. Continue reading →

They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease."You think a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a sheet of glass."John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir of Enfield (1875-1940): Author and Diplomat

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